How to install Cacti on RHEL / CentOS 8

This guide will cover how to install and configure Cacti on RHEL / CentOS 8. Monitoring is a key component of any Infrastructure. At computingforgeeks, so far, we have covered the usage of Zabbix, telegraf/ Influxdb, Grafana, and Prometheus. Cacti is a completely open-source network monitoring and graphing tool that was designed as a front-end application for the industry-standard data logging tool – RRDtool.

Cacti harnesses the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Some good features of Cacti include:

Fast polling of metrics

Support for multiple data acquisition methods

Support for advanced graph templating

User management functionality with ACL

Cacti provides an intuitive and easy to use web interface for managing network monitoring and configurations. There are dependencies needed for building and running Cacti on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8. This section will cover installation and configuration of each component.